Bohdana Kurylo
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Ukrainian academic in the UK | Fellow @LSEMethodology | PhD @UCLSSEES | Research: international security, post-Soviet politics & qualitative methodology
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When people notice my Slavic accent/appearance:
- Are u Russian?
- No, Ukrainian.
- Russian Ukrainian or just Ukrainian?
- Just Ukrainian 🤨
- What's your opinion on the conflict?
- Russia's invaded my country, what else do u want to know?
- Here's what I think. Both sides...
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'Russia annexed Crimea without bloodshed'?
Only if we ignore the persecution, torture and forced displacement of Crimean Tatars and pro-🇺🇦 sections of the population.
The story of my childhood friend illustrates the discrimination Ukrainians in Crimea face in daily life ⬇️
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Sometimes, you just want to go about your daily business without being profiled, asked uninvited questions and made into an object of somebody's entertainment.
P.S. If ever in doubt, just say 'Slava Ukraini!', and you'll immediately know who's in front of you 😉
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Ukraine, January 2022
My grandma (82 y/o) went on a usual grocery run. In the supermarket, she was so pleased with the service of one cashier that she even recited a poem (as a Ukrainian Literature teacher she often does it). To thank her, the cashier gifted her a pack of🍫. 1/4
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In the end, she was left with only a handful of 🥔🍅🍆 just enough to cook dinner with. Delighted, she went to sleep.
Are you still wondering how Ukrainians have been able to show such resilience and self-organisation during the war? END
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Ukrainians' desire to protect our language and national identity against their violent erasure by Russia is not radical nationalism. It is part of our attempts to decolonise ourselves from Russian cultural hegemony imposed on us for centuries.
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Happened to be in a company of people who oppose giving aid to Ukraine. To them, Ukrainians are Nazis & our refugees are too white to deserve help. I didn't feel safe revealing where I was from. Intoxicated by RU propaganda & personal greed, they let their anger out on the victim
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As a Ukrainian in Western academia, I second each one of these words:
'I don't care how many PhDs you have. ... You have opinions, we have experiences. You have literature, we have stories. You have "work", we have nooses around our necks'.
Our realities trump your theories.
“Anti-imperialist” imperialism, saviorism, and western supremacy explained. As I’ve always this, this is fundamentally a rudiment of the racism of low expectations.
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Troubled by Ukrainians' ability to speak, IR scholars are frantically trying to reinstate their monopoly of knowledge about
#RussiaUkraineWar
. In the name of peace, this paper shows no regard for local voices, instead complaining about the silencing of Western 'peacenik' experts.
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Hey all the 'UKRAINE ISN'T INNOCENT' folks out there, what goes through your minds when you say this? Do you imply that Ukraine deserves genocide b/c it can't live up to your impossible standards of innocence? I bet you're the ones who blame rape victims for wearing short skirts.
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When people invoke Russia's 'legitimate security concerns', I urge them to consider the perspective of Ukraine.
That's when I see that look with a smirk... To them, I'm a naive 🇺🇦 girl who talks about those who don't matter. It hurts...
Together we must prove them wrong, okay?
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They stopped by every stall and ensured that she doesn't leave without bags full of food, which they then helped her carry home. My grandma spent the rest of the day giving the groceries away to her older/poorer neighbours 🧓🫂👴. 3/4
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Buried my grandma yesterday. Her life started with WW2 and ended with Russia's war in terrible conditions. She was a devoted teacher of 🇺🇦 language & literature. Here's a picture of her when she was my age. You may also remember her from the story below.
My pain is unbearable 💔
Ukraine, January 2022
My grandma (82 y/o) went on a usual grocery run. In the supermarket, she was so pleased with the service of one cashier that she even recited a poem (as a Ukrainian Literature teacher she often does it). To thank her, the cashier gifted her a pack of🍫. 1/4
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Shortly after, on the way to a nearby market, my grandma saw a happy family with a little child and decided to give the 🍫 to the 🧒. To her surprise, 5 min later, the same family found my grandma in the market and insisted on buying groceries for her. 2/4
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Many Western academics still hail Lenin as a theorist of 'anti-imperialism'. I've myself once had to teach his 'theory' as part of IR curriculum. For me and for students from the 'post-Soviet' space, witnessing this glorification of his work was frankly re-traumatising.
Goodbye, Lenin!
Ukraine 🇺🇦 is sending Vladimir Lenin to the waste bin of history in every town that they liberate in Kursk & Belgorod, Russia!
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Today, 'anti-war' Russians spend more time harassing Ukrainians online than doing anything to end the war their country started.
As a 🇺🇦 scholar, I increasingly see 🇷🇺 scholars based in the West obnoxiously writing to us (often in Russian!) to criticise us for being 'too harsh'.
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For some, this is just a meme. But do you know how some self-entitled Russians living in Ukraine have treated Ukrainians? Here's a story about what my family has endured from our Russian neighbours in the countryside.
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2) those disloyal to the occupying authorities lost their jobs and had to flee bc living in Crimea had become impossible;
3) Russia has since relocated up to 1 million Russians to Crimea (who now make up 1/3 of its population).
Result: endless number of unspeakable tragedies.
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What I see here as a Ukrainian:
A bunch of highly privileged American men are cheering about not helping a country that is repulsing the invasion by a fascist & imperialist foreign dictatorship. And then they complain about being 'attacked' as if they are the victims here🙄
Elon Musk on the request from the Ukrainian Government to turn on Starlink in Crimea: “We figured out that this was kind of like a Pearl Harbor like attack...So they really asked us to proactively take part in a major act of war”
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Ukrainians aren't anti-peace, we are pro-justice. Negotiations with Russia don't work as this isn't a 'conflict' for which both sides are equally responsible. It is a genocide, where any concessions mean accepting some form of subjugation in return for only temporary pacification
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Are you wondering how Crimeans' attitude could've turned anti-Ukrainian so quickly since the occupation?
1) Russian propaganda had been pumped into Crimea long before 2014, and most local elites had already been bought off;
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My friend died the following day, a month before her graduation. The cause of death is unconfirmed. Justice is yet to be served.
Her parents believe that it was bc she was a Ukrainian citizen. This was on par with the discrimination she faced everywhere else in Crimea post-2014.
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One of my illusions when entering Western academia was that I would be judged by my professional abilities, rather than by physique, ethnicity, etc.
Despite all my achievements, some of my male colleagues see me as nothing more than a petite Ukrainian woman with a funny accent.
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@Aninnnk
😆😆😆 On a different note, if someone thought I'm Czech, I'd take it as a compliment.
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I'm noticing that the same decolonial scholars who have ignored Ukraine's anticolonial struggle or opposed it altogether (cos 🇺🇦 armed forces are full of 'Nazis', according to them) are now celebrating Hamas violence and engaging in antisemitism. Why are we still tolerating this?
My social media channels show too many decolonial colleagues celebrating Hamas violence as Palestinian anticolonial resistance. They seem undisturbed or don't comment on the hostages, children and the elderly murdered, sexual violence, female corpses undressed, paraded, spat on.
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Why do people who know I'm 🇺🇦 have this weird urge to come and tell me how tired they are of hearing about
#RussiaUkraineWar
? What do they want me to say? Oh I'm sorry that you've been put through the displeasure of hearing about how Russia is waging a genocidal war on my people?
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🇷🇺 occupation happened when my friend was doing her BA degree in once-welcoming Crimea. She decided to stay for the remaining 2 years of her studies, hoping to then reunite with her family in Ukraine.
One day, she felt unwell and went to the hospital...
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The hospital charged her for a 2-day stay but hardly gave her any treatment, despite her condition worsening rapidly.
On the last day, she was begging for help but doctors kept ignoring her cries, as shown by both her correspondence with parents and other patients' testimonies.
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Calling Ukrainian scholars too 'activist' and politically engaged is one way of discrediting them. All social science research is, in some ways, political. Far worse are those who push forward implicit agendas while hiding behind the veil of objectivity and balanced viewpoints.
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For Navalny supporters such as this one, Ukrainians aren't doing enough to stop their own genocide. Coz you know, being killed on the battlefield and in our homes doesn't count for much...
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Too much research on Russian culture has ignored or whitewashed its brutal colonial history. What's the point of yet another navel-gazing project on Dostoevsky or Stalinist "art" when we still know so little about the cultures violently erased by Russia? Shameful priorities.
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An exchange between a now-dead 🇷🇺 soldier and his mother: 'I'm scared, we're firing at everybody, even civilians. We were told that they'd be greeting us, but they are throwing themselves under our tanks, not letting us drive. They call us fascists. Mum, I'm really struggling'
Фото від полку Азов з телефона вже вбитого 🇷🇺 солдата.
Російські батькі, ваші діти - не на яких не "учєніях", вони воюють в Україні. І тут їх вбивають.
Зупиніть війну, виходьте на вулиці. Бо ваші діти помруть - помруть так, як помер власник цього телефону!
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Equally nauseating pro-Russian narratives are being parroted by the Western Left & Right. Righties don't even deny that Ukrainian lives have no value to them. Lefties, in contrast, emit a huge sense of self-righteousness while lecturing Ukrainians on how genocide is good for them
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It's NATO's weakness, not strength, that has emboldened Russia's imperialist militarism.
Accepting Ukraine into NATO is essential for reasserting international law and protecting human rights.
Read our open letter in The Guardian 🔻
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There's no marginalisation of Russian speakers in Ukraine. Instead, we are reclaiming our right to speak our ancestral language in a context that has thus far forced us to use Russian.
Before the recent language laws, my needs as a Ukrainian speaker were constantly ignored.
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🇷🇺🤡: If it wasn't for Putin's & Zelensky's personal ambitions, RUs & UKRs would reunite into one big family
🇺🇦🤨: Leave us out of your imperialist wet dreams
🇷🇺🤡: How dare you? I have relatives in Ukraine!
🇺🇦🤨: And what do they say?
🇷🇺🤡: Idk, haven't spoken to me since Feb 24
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Growing up in Kyiv in a Ukrainian-speaking family, I became socialised to use Russian in public spaces to avoid being seen as a 'village girl'.
My dad, who actually moved to Kyiv from a village in the 1990s, had to switch to Russian (which he barely knew) to be employable.
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Some Russian speakers complain about laws reasserting the primacy of Ukrainian language. But they need to reflect on the privileges they've had until now, as well as their role in ostracising Ukrainian speakers in certain regions and contributing to the idea of russkiy mir.
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A short summary of this article: 'Ukrainian lives should just be sacrificed to more important causes in the world'
How can Ukrainians ever feel safe in Western academia when such genocide-endorsing quasi-research gets published in top journals like
@IAJournal_CH
?
Another nice day in English-speaking academia: professors of ethics justifying ***Russian settler colonialism*** because money spent on military assistance to Ukraine's self-defence could be spent on climate change instead
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No, it is NOT Western-centric to see authoritarianism as evil.
No, Ukraine hasn't fallen under Western influence in rejecting Russian totalitarianism on its soil.
But it's a VERY Western thing to fetishise foreign authoritarian regimes as beacons of stability and efficiency.
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One moment, you're tearfully saying goodbye to your family who are returning to live under bombs in Ukraine.
A few moments later, an Uber driver lectures you about how Ukrainians are such privileged white people, so 'babe, give me a generous tip cos life in the EU is so tough'.
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Although Ukrainian was the official language of my school, my Ukrainian(!) History teacher only addressed us in Russian (and he wasn't the only one to do it). When he wasn't feeding us pro-Russian history narratives, he would use the class time to show us Russian TV shows.
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Today is
#Ukraine
's (regained) Independence Day and my birthday. To me, being a 🇺🇦 woman means having the power within yourself to assume your subjectivity, even when you're told that you don't have the right to exist the way you are. Слава Україні! 🌾🌻💙💛
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🧵 Once while conferencing, I met 3 Russian scholars (all from 🇬🇧 universities) who, upon finding out that I'm Ukrainian, began to talk to me in Russian. Out of politeness, I switched to Russian, too, only to get interrupted by one of them:
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As if THAT article wasn't enough, International Affairs published ANOTHER one that calls for forcing Zelenskyy to negotiate with Putin and opposes the fast-tracking of Ukraine into the EU.
Colleagues, please be more vocal about supporting Ukraine so that we aren't in a minority.
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The outrage around Roger Mac Ginty's article is not a personal attack on the author. It is resistance against the wilful ignorance of many 'big names' in IR, the gatekeepers in the field. Their 'peace' proposals harm people under genocidal invasion, including families like mine.
Troubled by Ukrainians' ability to speak, IR scholars are frantically trying to reinstate their monopoly of knowledge about
#RussiaUkraineWar
. In the name of peace, this paper shows no regard for local voices, instead complaining about the silencing of Western 'peacenik' experts.
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Pacifists say we shouldn't moralise the support for Ukrainian troops and instead condemn all violence as wrong. But this acontextual moralism disregards the root cause of the war. Ukrainians have no choice but to fight if we are to stay a free people. Slavery is worse than death.
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Putin isn't deranged. He's vile and cynical, deliberately distorting history to justify the extermination of Ukrainians. His actions can be explained by locating them in the historical context of Russian genocidal colonialism. The problem isn't in mental health but Russia itself.
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Female Ukrainian refugees are at risk of:
- sexual exploitation and trafficking;
- unemployment;
- denied access to sexual and reproductive healthcare (e.g. Poland);
- harassment by Russian men living abroad (e.g. Germany).
Gender must be prioritised in humanitarian assistance.
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Western media continue to create a misleading impression that the West has been 'flooding' Ukraine with aid and money. In reality, the support we receive is not nearly enough to stop Russia from decimating us - not as spectacularly as in early 2022, yet quietly and consistently.
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We've regularly been subjected to verbal abuse, as the Russians kept reminding us that Ukrainians are less civilised than them and so deserve such treatment. This inferiority complex is what has kept us, and our neighbours, from speaking out about such mundane colonial practices.
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I attended a roundtable with this paper's authors last week. Here are my 3 observations:
1️⃣ During Q&A, the chair tried to avoid taking my question. Despite me sitting front & centre, he ignored my raised hand while collecting all other questions. He must've read my tweets...
As if THAT article wasn't enough, International Affairs published ANOTHER one that calls for forcing Zelenskyy to negotiate with Putin and opposes the fast-tracking of Ukraine into the EU.
Colleagues, please be more vocal about supporting Ukraine so that we aren't in a minority.
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Until recently, speaking Ukrainian was a marker of inferiority in Ukrainian (post)colonial society. Russified Ukrainians and descendants of Russian settlers used to hold most positions of power.
Being a successful Ukrainian-speaking Ukrainian is in itself an emancipatory act.
While socioeconomic differences between rural and urban populations are common around the world, in Ukraine, it seems, they were more pronounced, having been imposed artificially by the empire
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Ukraine's history must not be reduced to a mere subset of Russian history. The nations colonised by Russia deserve to have their own histories, which must be recognised and studied in their own right.
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'I know you're 🇺🇦, but admit, we should be grateful to Putin for giving us something to write about. Without him, I wouldn't have a job'.
Dude, there's something wrong with you if you see a bloody dictator trying to massacre a peaceful nation as a career advancement opportunity.
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Before using the war in
#Ukraine
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- will your work help the people about whose country you're writing?
- can you pair up with a UKR academic who will likely have a lot to say but may otherwise have little access to Western academia?
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While there has been widespread international outrage and help for Ukrainian women and girls raped by Russians in occupied territories, there has been far less attention to sexual violence against men and boys, whether under occupation or in captivity
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What should IR do better to become more attuned to
#Ukrainian
voices?
I discuss this and more in my new article, 'The Ukrainian subject, hierarchies of knowledge production and the everyday: An autoethnographic narrative', which is now out in
@JIRD_jour
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Over 30% of PhD students develop a psychiatric condition, which is 8% higher than those working in defence and emergency services
#phdlife
#AcademicTwitter
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Having been knocked out by the fresher's flu lately, I almost forgot to announce that I'm starting as Teaching Fellow in International Relations at
@oxford_brookes
. Here's a photo of me happily resting in my office after giving a lecture on the MA Security module I'm convening.
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Though I'm proud of my accent, I could no longer consider Western academia a safe and inclusive space.
Western universities must do more to confront such everyday colonial practices and not silence Ukrainians (or any other group) who point them out.
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What universities/departments are committed to decolonising East European Studies? Give them a shout-out!
Beyond the efforts of individual academics, change must happen at an institutional level (funding, research positions aimed at scholars from Russia-colonised contexts, etc.)
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To my fellow 'Critical' IR colleagues:
No matter how many years you've spent theorising about helping the oppressed, you aren't self-critical enough if you find yourself saying: 'I'm not justifying Russia's invasion, BUT...'
(From my recent encounter with a well-known feminist)
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@ucumarxists
Your ideological extremism indirectly enables Russia's genocide of Ukrainians to continue.
@sheffielduni
, would you care to comment?
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3⃣ I eventually found a way to pose my questions. It was vital to establish my presence in a space where Ukraine's fate was being discussed without regard for the Ukrainians themselves.
Our vocalness may trouble these senior Western academics, but we are here to stay.
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It's disgraceful to organise events with 'the war in Ukraine' in their title, where speakers are predominantly Russia experts who spend most of the time discussing Russia. Stop using Ukraine as a mere backdrop for Russia-centred discussions and recentre Ukrainian voices instead.
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Oh boy, I wish I could unread some academic works on Ukraine published before 2022. Some speak of 'perceived Russian aggression'. Others overinflate the Far Right problem and discredit Maidan. Little is said about the horrors of Russian occupation or the progress made by Ukraine.
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Although I said that our 🇷🇺 neighbours were well-off, it didn't prevent them from stealing produce from our local farmers. Every once in a while, in the evening, they would just go to the local farm and take some veggies. Many saw that, but nobody dared to stop them.
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I can't believe that trying to impress Ukrainian women on a date by showing off one's knowledge of Russian literature is still a thing in the West
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Russia's annihilation of my people has been live-streamed on TV. Consuming it like some splatter film, not all Western audiences were left impressed:
'Boo! Not enough dead children!'
'Why is there a McDonald's in a warzone?'
'Repetitive plot where Russia is always the villain'
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Now, can you imagine one day you come home to discover your neighbours washing their dirty laundry in your bathroom? That's what happened when our 🇷🇺 neighbours were having water outages due to repair works, so they decided to break into our house to use our facilities 🤷♀️
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Western researchers increasingly go to Ukraine to extract local knowledge but in a way that fits their existing hypotheses. They take all the credit for the final research product while using the cheap labour of Ukrainian scholars who do the low-key work (e.g., data collection).
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We used to have chickens in our backyard... One day we came home to find several of them lying dead on the ground. The Russians thought it to be too 'barbarian' to live next to 🐔 so they just killed a couple of them when we were away. They killed more as the time went on.
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Paradox of post-Soviet studies: despite its traditionally RU-centric nature, the field has a poor understanding of Russia as an imperial actor in the region.
Promise lies with decolonial scholarship on the region, but am I alone in feeling that it is being pushed to the margins?
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Ukrainians and other ethnic minorities living in Russia have always been mocked for their accents, which are seen as markers of inferiority and lower social status.
Hence, in their eyes, I turned out to be less "cultured" than they would've expected from an academic.
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Being outside of the EU, Ukrainians have never been welcome in the West, unless one's ready to work as a butcher or smth as in the UK's case. Many work illegally in Poland to feed their families back in Ukraine, often working in unsafe conditions and being abused by employers.
All I have to say about the “Eastern Europeans are white people readily embraced by the West” debate is that people saying this have clearly never been immigrants from Eastern Europe to the West.
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Friends of
#Ukraine
, read my deeply personal account of the struggles Ukrainian scholars go through in trying to get our voices heard both in Western academia and everyday life, if you still haven't 👇🫶
In the eight article in this forum,
@BohdanaKurylo
asks what should IR do better to become more attuned to
#Ukrainian
voices?
'It is time to be the subject rather than an object of history.'
Read full text:
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Being Ukrainian makes you a target. We are being scapegoated for random issues. Blackmailed by those who threaten to withdraw their support (be it state leaders or visa sponsors). Desensitised to the daily killings of Ukrainians, the world wants our silence and business as usual.
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Ok journal editors: Can you offer any help to
#Ukrainian
researchers trying to get published (e.g. mentoring)? We keep on sharing knowledge despite being directly affected by the war. But due to structural inequalities, our voices continue to be marginalised in Western academia.
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"Oh God, you've got a Ukrainian accent!" - exclaimed one. The rest giggled.
Why did they find it odd that a Ukrainian scholar, whose mother tongue is Ukrainian, may have an accent when speaking Russian? What is so funny?
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Staying at our tiny Soviet-style dacha during the summer was always a nightmare due to the behaviour of a Russian family, whose house is next door. These are wealthy Russians who work at the 🇷🇺 embassy and various academic institutions, and whose children live in 🇪🇺.
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Today marks a triple celebration for me: it's my birthday and Ukraine's Independence Day, but I'm also celebrating my successful PhD defence. Big thanks to
@ATRWibben
&
@AndrewWNeal
for being such awesome examiners and to my supervisors, Felix Ciuta &
@KubikJan
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2⃣ In his talk, Mark W. stated that the West can't continue helping Ukraine forever, but also that Russia likely wants all of Ukraine and won't stop at Ukraine.
This contradicted their argument that negotiations with Putin could end the war. Lack of regional expertise is evident
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Concerned that the war discourse is getting too 'Ukraine-centric'? Turning to pro-Russian sources for some 'diversity of opinion'?
Consider the diverse stories of the victims of Russian violence. That's where diversity lies, not in bothsidesism.
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I don't know how to live in a world with so much injustice, indifference and hate. I don't want to live another day only to see Russia kill more Ukrainians while others watch it as some TV show. But merely knowing how much they want to see us dead motivates me to go on.
forever haunting sound of ukrainians screaming trapped by the rubble of the apartment building in dnipro that russians have just destroyed.
russia means genocide.
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On this
#UkraineIndependenceDay
and my birthday, I'm celebrating INTERdependence.
I owe my freedom to Ukraine, but it is citizens that make Ukraine independent. Transnational solidarity helps us survive the hardest of times, yet we help the world stop one of the greatest evils.
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Regardless of what Ukrainians do and how much evidence of Russia's massacres there is, some people will never be capable of finding the humanity within themselves to empathise with the victims. They'd rather deny reality than acknowledge their own moral bankruptcy.
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At the same time, I have tremendous respect for those Russians who help to call out such practices. We need more of you. END
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With a whirlwind of travelling to Korea and working on multiple research projects, I forgot to share that I finally submitted my PhD thesis earlier this spring 🎓 I promise I'll be back on Xwitter soon, but in the meantime, I'm gradually reconnecting with all my dearest friends.
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Thrilled to share that after an amazing time at UCL (
@UCLSSEES
), I've accepted a 2-year Fellowship in Qualitative Research Methods at LSE (
@LSEMethodology
)!
I'm mindful that many other PhD graduates haven’t been as fortunate this year — happy to offer any help I can!
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I'm truly honoured to receive the 2021
@BASEES
PSG Polish Article Prize for my paper 'Counter-populist performances of (in)security: Feminist resistance in the face of right-wing populism in Poland' published in
@RISjnl
.
@PBasees
@UCLSSEES
@womenalsoknow
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Had Critical IR scholars spent as much time studying the atrocities committed by Russia/USSR as they have on criticising the US construction of Russians as the enemy in the past 3 decades, we wouldn't have a field that is so unwelcoming to the oppressed subjects of Europe's East.
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To genuinely understand
#RussianColonialism
, we must look beyond Russian studies and read the critical literature by scholars from subaltern nations. The fact that
#Morozov
used to give keynote speeches on decolonising Europe's East shows just how blinding Russia-centrism can be.
One thing not discussed in Morozov’s case is many scholars from former Russian colonies deeply disagree with his critique of Russian imperialism.
Read Koplatadze’s amazing article explaining orientalist views within Russian post-colonial studies
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Research on
#RussiaUkraineWar
suffers a lot due to the prevalence of 'fast scholarship' produced in haste by scholars with weak regional knowledge. Too much is being said with too little value.
Rule of thumb: if a study doesn't account for the pre-2022 context, save your time.
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Let's be clear: Western academia is full of such 'Morozovs' who promote Russian narratives while hiding behind the veil of theory, neutrality and freedom of speech. It's not enough for academics to be 'anti-war'. We must actively scrutinise their ties to Russia.
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@vit_t_1991
@n8andersn
I have, too, always been able to relate to Irish people. Thank you, and Heroyam Slava!
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